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african american families
american dream
american studies
anthropology
anthropology of morality
Author_Cheryl Mattingly
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chronic illness
cultural studies
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ethical framework
ethnographic research
everyday occurances
family
first person perspective
generational
health
health care
human condition
love
moral life
moral transformation
morality
parenthood
personal experiences
politics
radical change
serious chronic medical conditions
struggle for a good life
transformative power
uncertainty
united states of america
Product details
- ISBN 9780520281202
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Oct 2014
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Moral Laboratories is an engaging ethnography and a groundbreaking foray into the anthropology of morality. It takes us on a journey into the lives of African American families caring for children with serious chronic medical conditions, and it foregrounds the uncertainty that affects their struggles for a good life. Challenging depictions of moral transformation as possible only in moments of breakdown or in radical breaches from the ordinary, it offers a compelling portrait of the transformative powers embedded in day-to-day existence. From soccer fields to dinner tables, the everyday emerges as a moral laboratory for reshaping moral life. Cheryl Mattingly offers vivid and heart-wrenching stories to elaborate a first-person ethical framework, forcefully showing the limits of third-person renderings of morality.
Cheryl Mattingly is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Division of Occupational Science at the University of Southern California. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. She is the award-winning author of The Paradox of Hope: Journeys through a Clinical Borderland and Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots: The Narrative Structure of Experience and coeditor, with Linda Garro, of Narrative and Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing, among other books.
